The World in 2030: Tomorrow's Scenarios, Today's Responsibilities

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.

Starr Auditorium, MacMillan Hall 117, 167 Thayer Street

The World in 2030: Tomorrow’s Scenarios, Today’s Responsibilities

• Romano Prodi, former Italian Prime Minister and Brown Professor at Large • Ricardo Lagos, former President of Chile and Brown Professor at Large • Alfred Gusenbauer, former Chancellor of Austria and Watson Institute Visiting Professor

Three leading figures in the international policy arena will join in a discussion of major global issues and opportunities that could unfold in the coming decades – and the course corrections needed now to ensure a better future for more of the world’s citizens. This panel of leaders will address forward-looking questions including:

• Can we determine how the world will look in 2030? What are the critical contingencies facing the world? • How should these contingencies be anticipated and addressed by those with intellectual and institutional responsibility today? • How do leaders take into account both the desirable futures and nightmare possibilities that attention to critical contingencies invites? What investments are required of leaders and publics? • Do the answers to these questions look similar or different from vantage points in Austria, Italy, Europe, Chile, or Latin America?